There are several different types of Bitcoin clients. Header-only clients like MultiBit trust that the majority of mining power is honest for the purposes of enforcing network rules such as the 21 million BTC limit. Full clients do not trust miners in this way.

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NVC is a scam - a pre-mined scrypt version cloned coin - don't bother with this coin. They just cloned PPCoin and then pumped up the price to make it look better when it's not. PPC is the legit coin you are looking for. Don't look at it by price, go by market cap. PPCoin has the larger market cap.

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